Investigating Long-Term Semantic Priming of Middle- and Low-Familiarity Category Exemplars

The authors examined long-term semantic priming of middle- and lowfamiliarity category exemplar targets as a result of participants' studying multiple middleand low-familiarity exemplar primes within a category. The authors used a lexical decision task to test the hypothesis that semantic encod...

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Published in:The Journal of general psychology 2007-10, Vol.134 (4), p.453-466
Main Authors: Ray, Suchismita, Bly, Benjamin Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
category exemplar
Choice Behavior
Cognition & reasoning
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Hypotheses
Language
lexical decision
long-term semantic priming
Miscellaneous
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Researchers
Semantics
Studies
Vocabulary
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Summary:The authors examined long-term semantic priming of middle- and lowfamiliarity category exemplar targets as a result of participants' studying multiple middleand low-familiarity exemplar primes within a category. The authors used a lexical decision task to test the hypothesis that semantic encoding of middle- and low-familiarity category exemplar primes causes long-term priming of middle- and low-familiarity category exemplar targets from the same category. Participants were 12 undergraduate students who judged semantic characteristics of category exemplar primes at study and at test and who provided lexical decisions on both primes and targets in a paradigm in which at least 6 intervening items separated primes and targets. Results supported the hypothesis by showing long-term semantic priming of middle- and low-familiarity category exemplar targets. The authors discuss results in terms of theories of semantic priming.
ISSN:0022-1309
1940-0888
DOI:10.3200/GENP.134.4.453-466